The law is not enough. Limitations of traditional approaches to protecting minors: And how to overcome them
The challenges to traditional approaches in the area of protecting minors against harmful media content are manifold and well known. Viewed from above, the lawmakers’ difficulties in reacting to these development appropriately shows several strands of fundamental frontiers that old-school legislation runs into, e.g. cross-border settings, power laws in platform markets, fragmented legal frameworks, dynamic developments or declining parental control. The session will take a look at these frictions, explain the underlying, often human rights-based limitations for legislators, and show potential paths that help coping with the challenges ahead, inter alia the role and function of cooperation and industry initiatives, the rising tide of digital media literacy as a governance ressource and possible synergies between law and (behavioral) ethics.
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